Printer technology from daisy wheel to dot matrix to laser.
Guests: Herb Lechner, SRI; Steve Ray, Diablo; Paul Shapiro, Diablo; John Ebach, PARC; Doug Curry, Xerox; Tibor Fischally, Xerox
Products/Demos: Diablo Daisy Wheel Printer, Diablo Thermal Printer, Diablo Series C Ink Jet Printer, Xerox Color Laser Printer
Reviewer:
longlivelavey
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January 26, 2017
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Printer History
With today's constant focus on personal computing device technology, it's wonderful to see a history piece on the printer and not the computer. Let alone a discussion about inkjet printing from 1983! And the discussion on laser printing in this episode is very educational. I find it interesting that to this day laser printing is still less affordable than high quality inkjet; when that very type of inkjet is comparable to laser.
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December 31, 2013
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Just watched this
Interesting look at printer technology during the mid-1980s.
...and I agree with the previous reviewer that the ending music is great.
Reviewer:
FroggyMe6581
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March 23, 2012
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Xerox Alto!
What a great, very early episode! This is the one that Stewart Chefiet said the laser printer went up in smoke during the filming :) That Baboon image is legendary, and the Xerox Alto made an appearance! I was impressed by the silence of the thermal printer. But the rat-tat-tat of the daisy-wheel was fun. And the engineer said "plug 'n play" in 1983. Wow!
While I enjoy the Random Access segment of later episodes, especially when they have historically significant news announcements, as they always seem to, I really like the outro in these older episodes with the groovy music, and the behind-the-camera view.
